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Query the 'NHS TRUD API' (full submission) · Issue #705 · ropensci/software-review · GitHub

Date accepted: 2025-08-08

Submitting Author Name: Alasdair Warwick
Submitting Author Github Handle: @rmgpanw
Other Package Authors Github handles: (comma separated, delete if none) @abolvera, @cyu12, @rnluben
Repository: https://github.com/rmgpanw/trud/
Submission type: Standard
Editor: @emilyriederer
Reviewers: @AleKoure, @jonclayden

Archive: TBD
Version accepted: TBD
Language: en

• Paste the full DESCRIPTION file inside a code block below:

Package: trud
Title: Query the 'NHS TRUD API'
Version: 0.1.0.9000
Authors@R: c(
    person(given = "Alasdair",
           family = "Warwick",
           role = c("aut", "cre", "cph"),
           email = "alasdair.warwick.19@ucl.ac.uk",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-0800-2890")),
    person("Robert", "Luben", role = "aut",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-5088-6343")),
    person("Abraham", "Olvera-Barrios", role = "aut",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-3305-4465")),
    person("Chuin Ying", "Ung", role = "aut",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-8487-4589"))
    )
Description: Provides a convenient R interface to the 'National Health Service 
    NHS Technology Reference Update Distribution (TRUD) API', allowing users 
    to list available releases for their subscribed items, retrieve metadata, 
    and download release files. For more information on the API, see 
    <https://isd.digital.nhs.uk/trud/users/guest/filters/0/api>.
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Encoding: UTF-8
Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
Depends: R (>= 4.2.0)
Imports: 
    cli,
    dplyr,
    httr2,
    purrr,
    rlang,
    rvest,
    stringr,
    tibble
URL: https://rmgpanw.github.io/trud/,
    https://github.com/rmgpanw/trud
BugReports: https://github.com/rmgpanw/trud/issues
Suggests: 
    knitr,
    rmarkdown,
    spelling,
    testthat (>= 3.0.0),
    withr
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Language: en-US
VignetteBuilder: knitr

• Please indicate which category or categories from our package fit policies or statistical package categories this package falls under. (Please check one or more appropriate boxes below):

  Data Lifecycle Packages

  • data retrieval
  • data extraction
  • data munging
  • data deposition
  • data validation and testing
  • workflow automation
  • version control
  • citation management and bibliometrics
  • scientific software wrappers
  • field and lab reproducibility tools
  • database software bindings
  • geospatial data
  • text analysis

• Explain how and why the package falls under these categories (briefly, 1-2 sentences). Please note any areas you are unsure of:

trud wraps the NHS TRUD API, which enables account holders to automate the download of technology reference files from NHS England.

• Who is the target audience and what are scientific applications of this package?

The technology reference files from NHS England are widely used by researchers (both within and outside the UK) working with electronic health records data. The available items include various clinical coding terminologies such as ICD, Read, prescription codes and the SNOMED CT ontology (which is updated with new available releases every few months). While trud is a relatively small package, it provides a helpful aid to researchers working with these release items, greatly simplifying the process of automated updates to support downstream analyses.

• Are there other R packages that accomplish the same thing? If so, how does yours differ or meet our criteria for best-in-category?

There are no other similar R packages that I am aware of.

• (If applicable) Does your package comply with our guidance around Ethics, Data Privacy and Human Subjects Research?

Not applicable

• If you made a pre-submission inquiry, please paste the link to the corresponding issue, forum post, or other discussion, or @tag the editor you contacted.

#689

• Explain reasons for any pkgcheck items which your package is unable to pass.

Please note that all pkgcheck checks are passing for me locally, however the pkgcheck GitHub Actions currently hangs (being investigated at ropensci-review-tools/pkgcheck-action#54)

Confirm each of the following by checking the box.

• I have read the rOpenSci packaging guide.
• I have read the author guide and I expect to maintain this package for at least 2 years or to find a replacement.

This package:

• does not violate the Terms of Service of any service it interacts with.
• has a CRAN and OSI accepted license.
• contains a README with instructions for installing the development version.
• includes documentation with examples for all functions, created with roxygen2.
• contains a vignette with examples of its essential functions and uses.
• has a test suite.
• has continuous integration, including reporting of test coverage.

• Do you intend for this package to go on CRAN?

trud 0.1.0 is available on CRAN (accepted mid-2024)

• Do you intend for this package to go on Bioconductor?

• Do you wish to submit an Applications Article about your package to Methods in Ecology and Evolution? If so:

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• I agree to abide by rOpenSci's Code of Conduct during the review process and in maintaining my package should it be accepted.

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